Hmm. I never even heard of this Mass Effect controversy. But, as much as I don't like Bioware, they don't deserve: 1. Being owned by EA (cause no one deserves that) 2. All the bullshit about the game from the video I just saw. I really hate when people talk about something they haven't even experienced yet. Good thing I rarely pay attention to stories like this.

I take this as a sign that you've totally fucked up in your choice of targets, when Jack Thompson can't get behind game attacking (Ok, I'm going to assume he wouldn't go after something like Pokemon, but that's a really silly extreme anyway.) In a way it's not surprising, GTA pays lipservice to giving freedom to be a nice guy - you just never complete the main game and do Hospital missions for forever or whatever. But Mass Effect not only lets you truly choose between good and bad, but rewards you for that and anyways you can't be evil evil like other Bioware titles, being a trilogy and all that'd fuck it up for sequels.

Edit: And anything that lets you oneshot enemies from across the map with a shotgun fails as a 'murder simulator', more so than most shooters.

HOLY CRAP! I mean, I knew that Jack Tompson was a jackhole, but I had no idea he was a xenophobic bible-quoting whore! Here, this entire time I think I supposed that he was coming at this from the left... not from the Religious Ryche (tm).

HOLY CRAP! I mean, I knew that Jack Tompson was a jackhole, but I had no idea he was a xenophobic bible-quoting whore! Here, this entire time I think I supposed that he was coming at this from the left... not from the Religious Ryche (tm).

Now this is starting to make A LOT more sense.

Is he morman, by any chance?

It was an April Fools joke.

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All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you.

He even told you to look at the tag, which was "april fools." And learn to spell, Mormon (which is politically incorrect, try LDS).

Personally, I think that Jack Thompson shows a bit of maturity and understanding here. I've met very intelligent, reasonable people who are all into this "culture wars" stuff and think that the mass media is killing our world. And, (again this is all quite personal), I think GTA is horse shit. I think it's fucking awful, and the fact that it is so popular says a lot about our indiscretionary youth. EVERYONE likes GTA, right? Intelligent, level-headed, reasonable humans like GTA. But so do kids with fucked-up drug addict parents who get silly ideas in their heads after playing GTA.

I think Thompson's methods are foul, and I also think he's an overbearing prick, but at the end of the day, I agree with him. Also, the Mass Effect sex thing is a non-issue. It's about as erotic as the "ooh, ohh!" noises you could hear in Fable after doing your wife.